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Jackschairs Wood is a Bronze Age cairn located 225 metres east-north-east of Netherholm in Perthshire, Scotland. The monument sits on bedrock of Silurian to Devonian extrusive rocks, specifically mafic lavas and tuffs that solidified during the Devonian period. This ancient volcanic geology forms the foundation of the Perthshire landscape and would have been a familiar terrain to the prehistoric communities who constructed and used this burial monument.
The cairn represents a significant ritual and funerary structure from the Bronze Age, when communities across Scotland built such stone monuments to mark the dead and reinforce territorial and ancestral bonds. The accumulation of stones over human remains or cremations served both practical and ceremonial purposes, creating enduring markers of settlement and social organisation across the Highland regions.
The monument is registered with Historic Environment Scotland as a scheduled ancient monument under reference SM5579, reflecting its importance as evidence of Bronze Age activity in Perthshire. Its survival within Jackschairs Wood preserves a record of prehistoric burial practice and settlement patterns in an area where Bronze Age material culture and monumental remains are distributed across the wider landscape.
Jackschairs Wood,cairn 225m ENE of Netherholm is a scheduled monument protected by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5579. View the official record →
Jackschairs Wood is a Bronze Age cairn located 225 metres east-north-east of Netherholm in Perthshire, Scotland. It is designated a Scheduled Ancient Monument by Historic Environment Scotland under reference SM5579.
Jackschairs Wood,cairn 225m ENE of Netherholm is a Scheduled Ancient Monument, legally protected by Historic Environment Scotland — the body responsible for designating and safeguarding heritage sites in Scotland. The official designation reference is SM5579.
Several scheduled monuments lie within 10 km, including Ardagie,homestead moat (2.8 km), Castle Law,fort (3.2 km), Barrows, 630m and 860m NE of Nether Garvock (4 km).
This page is just one thread. A full Aubrey report pulls together 14 strands of Jackschairs Wood,cairn 225m ENE of Netherholm's history, each drawn from the record and mapped to the exact spot:
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Jackschairs Wood,cairn 225m ENE of Netherholm stands on Unnamed Extrusive Rocks, Silurian To Devonian, bedrock that formed in the Devonian. The rock here is mafic lava and mafic tuff.